George Troup

George Troup (8 September 1780-26 April 1856) was a member of the US House of Representatives from Georgia's at-large district from 4 March 1807 to 3 March 1815 (succeeding David Meriwether and preceding Wilson Lumpkin), a US Senator from 13 November 1816 to 23 September 1818 (succeeding William Wyatt Bibb and preceding John Forsyth) and from 4 March 1829 to 8 November 1833 (succeeding Oliver H. Prince and preceding John Pendleton King), and Governor from 7 November 1823 to 7 November 1827 (succeeding John Clark and preceding John Forsyth). He was a Democratic-Republican and a Democrat.

Biography
George Troup was born in McIntosh Bluff, Alabama in 1780, and he owned the Valdosta Plantation (named for the Valle d'Aosta alpine valley in Italy), which was the namesake of Valdosta, Georgia; Troup himself would be the namesake of Troupville. He served in the General Assembly from 1803 to 1805 before serving in the US House of Representatives from 1807 to 1815, in the US Senate from 1816 to 1818, as Governor from 1823 to 1827, and as a Senator from 1829 to 1833. Troup was a supporter of the War of 1812 during his time in the House. During his governorship, he supported the removal of the Creeks from western Georgia to the Louisiana Purchase territories, and he supported public education and the construction of new roads and canals. He died in Treutlen County in 1856.